Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file
On 11/04/2022 15:16, Philip Jackson wrote:
Hi Mike,
I'm using LO 6.4.7.2 on UbuntuStudio 20.04 LTS and your --headless
command line instruction works and produces a pdf file which passed the
pdfinfo check with flying colours. I just rechecked to make sure. So
maybe your problem is distro related?
Thanks for your reply. Interesting to know it works for someone else
I'll do a bit more checking on what's going on here.
But I don't use the --headless command very often because it breaks the
links in my pdf output. So, I make use of the LO Writer gui to do
file> export as>export as pdf which gets me a workable pdf with working
links (clickable table of contents etc). If I need to reassemble some
pdf docs, I use pdftk utility because so many of the others break those
links.
I can't use the gui at all. The target document odt is actually created
by a perl web script that modifies a template odt file, then converted
using LO to either doc or pdf for the end user all running in the cgi
context.
IIRC simple pdf conversion loses brochure formatting when present in the
document, hence use of --print-to-file.
Philip
On 11/04/2022 10:51, Mike Scott wrote:
I'm having a spot of bother trying to get a .ps or .pdf produced from
a .odt using the command line.
I've revisited some code last used a few years ago, whose last step is
just to use LO to do this conversion. It used to make a .ps file, but
that now seems to have changed, and I get a .pdf instead - which is
corrupt.
So I get for example
libreoffice --headless --print-to-file --outdir "./" "./y.odt"
print /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet production/web
generator/y.odt -> /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet
production/web generator//y.pdf using
pdfinfo y.pdf
Syntax Warning: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Syntax Error (2432): Illegal character '{'
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
The resulting pdf won't load into a browser and upsets several of the
pdf tools, although gimp or xreader can read it. Fortunately, pdf2ps
accepts the file, so as a workaround, I do the LO --print-to-file and
then run the result through pdf2ps and then back through ps2pdf; the
result of that contortion seems OK.
Looking at the GUI instead, under the tools|options|print page, if I
try to set options for print to file, the tick box for pdf is set and
disabled. Yet if I select print to file in the normal print dialogue,
I get a valid .ps file not a pdf.
I need to run this as a print job, since '--convert-to pdf' doesn't
honour the brochure setting in place in the document. Using the GUI
and printing works fine, but isn't useful for automated processing.
If anyone has a way better of doing a command line conversion to a pdf
while honouring in particular the 'brochure' setting, I'd be grateful.
(This is with LO 6.4.7.2 under mint 20)
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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file
Hi Mike,
I'm using LO 6.4.7.2 on UbuntuStudio 20.04 LTS and your --headless command line
instruction works and produces a pdf file which passed the pdfinfo check with
flying colours. I just rechecked to make sure. So maybe your problem is
distro related?
But I don't use the --headless command very often because it breaks the links in my
pdf output. So, I make use of the LO Writer gui to do file> export as>export
as pdf which gets me a workable pdf with working links (clickable table of contents
etc). If I need to reassemble some pdf docs, I use pdftk utility because so many of
the others break those links.
Philip
On 11/04/2022 10:51, Mike Scott wrote:
I'm having a spot of bother trying to get a .ps or .pdf produced from a .odt
using the command line.
I've revisited some code last used a few years ago, whose last step is just to
use LO to do this conversion. It used to make a .ps file, but that now seems to
have changed, and I get a .pdf instead - which is corrupt.
So I get for example
libreoffice --headless --print-to-file --outdir "./" "./y.odt"
print /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet production/web generator/y.odt ->
/dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet production/web generator//y.pdf using
pdfinfo y.pdf
Syntax Warning: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Syntax Error (2432): Illegal character '{'
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
The resulting pdf won't load into a browser and upsets several of the pdf
tools, although gimp or xreader can read it. Fortunately, pdf2ps accepts the
file, so as a workaround, I do the LO --print-to-file and then run the result
through pdf2ps and then back through ps2pdf; the result of that contortion
seems OK.
Looking at the GUI instead, under the tools|options|print page, if I try to set
options for print to file, the tick box for pdf is set and disabled. Yet if I
select print to file in the normal print dialogue, I get a valid .ps file not a
pdf.
I need to run this as a print job, since '--convert-to pdf' doesn't honour the
brochure setting in place in the document. Using the GUI and printing works
fine, but isn't useful for automated processing.
If anyone has a way better of doing a command line conversion to a pdf while
honouring in particular the 'brochure' setting, I'd be grateful.
(This is with LO 6.4.7.2 under mint 20)
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[libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file
Hi all.
I'm having a spot of bother trying to get a .ps or .pdf produced from a
.odt using the command line.
I've revisited some code last used a few years ago, whose last step is
just to use LO to do this conversion. It used to make a .ps file, but
that now seems to have changed, and I get a .pdf instead - which is corrupt.
So I get for example
libreoffice --headless --print-to-file --outdir "./" "./y.odt"
print /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet production/web
generator/y.odt -> /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet
production/web generator//y.pdf using
pdfinfo y.pdf
Syntax Warning: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Syntax Error (2432): Illegal character '{'
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
The resulting pdf won't load into a browser and upsets several of the
pdf tools, although gimp or xreader can read it. Fortunately, pdf2ps
accepts the file, so as a workaround, I do the LO --print-to-file and
then run the result through pdf2ps and then back through ps2pdf; the
result of that contortion seems OK.
Looking at the GUI instead, under the tools|options|print page, if I try
to set options for print to file, the tick box for pdf is set and
disabled. Yet if I select print to file in the normal print dialogue, I
get a valid .ps file not a pdf.
I need to run this as a print job, since '--convert-to pdf' doesn't
honour the brochure setting in place in the document. Using the GUI and
printing works fine, but isn't useful for automated processing.
If anyone has a way better of doing a command line conversion to a pdf
while honouring in particular the 'brochure' setting, I'd be grateful.
(This is with LO 6.4.7.2 under mint 20)
--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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